In the meanwhile, American citizens are being sentenced to death for "spying".

Time to scratch that itch.

American sailors have come to the rescue of distressed Iranian fishermen for the second time in less than a week, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The United States Coast Guard cutter Monomoy "picked up six Iranian mariners after their vessel broke down" in the Persian Gulf Tuesday, the BBC reported Tuesday.

At about 3AM local time, the Coast Guard vessel "was hailed by flares and flashlights from the Iranian cargo dhow, Ya-Hussayn," the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet public affairs report said. The Iranian fishing "dhow's master requested assistance from Monomoy indicating the engine room was flooding and deemed not seaworthy."

The "Monomoy immediately launched their small boat and approached the Ya-Hussayn," the Pentagon report said. "Two persons were rescued from the vessel, and four from a life raft tied off to the dhow's stern."

The six Iranian fishermen were taken aboard the Monomoy and given water, blankets and halal meals, the Pentagon said. One Iranian sailor received medical treatment for minor burns.

"It is like you were sent by God," one of the freed Iranian fisherman, Fazel ur Rehman, told the American sailors, the New York Times' CJ Chivers reported.

In the meanwhile, American citizens are being sentenced to death for "spying".

Sounds like a case of a few war mongering idiots on both sides. Too bad it's guys like those and guys like us who end up paying for and dying for their itch scratching. I doubt the average Iranian wants war more than the average American (Islamophobes and Jihadists excluded).

It is surprising that the Iranians would sentence a US marine to death for espionage after our Navy rescued 6 of their fishermen from pirates. After all, saving a half-dozen Iranians should completely make up for overthrowing a civilian government and installing the Shah in 1925, responding to his overthrow in 1979 by instigating a war between Iran and Iraq that lasted 8 years, was conducted in good part with weapons (including poison gas) that we supplied to both sides, and finished with more than 500,000 dead on both sides, including the 300 or so on the Iranian airliner we shot down over Iranian waters and then lied about.

It's a mystery, really, why they don't love us. Maybe bombing them some more will help.

Detritus wrote:It is surprising that the Iranians would sentence a US marine to death for espionage after our Navy rescued 6 of their fishermen from pirates. After all, saving a half-dozen Iranians should completely make up for overthrowing a civilian government and installing the Shah in 1925, responding to his overthrow in 1979 by instigating a war between Iran and Iraq that lasted 8 years, was conducted in good part with weapons (including poison gas) that we supplied to both sides, and finished with more than 500,000 dead on both sides, including the 300 or so on the Iranian airliner we shot down over Iranian waters and then lied about.It's a mystery, really, why they don't love us. Maybe bombing them some more will help.

Detritus wrote:It is surprising that the Iranians would sentence a US marine to death for espionage after our Navy rescued 6 of their fishermen from pirates. After all, saving a half-dozen Iranians should completely make up for overthrowing a civilian government and installing the Shah in 1925, responding to his overthrow in 1979 by instigating a war between Iran and Iraq that lasted 8 years, was conducted in good part with weapons (including poison gas) that we supplied to both sides, and finished with more than 500,000 dead on both sides, including the 300 or so on the Iranian airliner we shot down over Iranian waters and then lied about.It's a mystery, really, why they don't love us. Maybe bombing them some more will help.

Detritus wrote:It is surprising that the Iranians would sentence a US marine to death for espionage after our Navy rescued 6 of their fishermen from pirates. After all, saving a half-dozen Iranians should completely make up for overthrowing a civilian government and installing the Shah in 1925, responding to his overthrow in 1979 by instigating a war between Iran and Iraq that lasted 8 years, was conducted in good part with weapons (including poison gas) that we supplied to both sides, and finished with more than 500,000 dead on both sides, including the 300 or so on the Iranian airliner we shot down over Iranian waters and then lied about.

It's a mystery, really, why they don't love us. Maybe bombing them some more will help.

They've had some recent problems with keeping nuke scientists alive, as well. Of course, the popular vote is pinning that one on the Israelis.